Learning or teaching your child Mathematics on the go is the best and most interesting ways of making your child familiar and build interest in Mathematics.
So Here we GO!
Mathematics Everywhere you Go
We all spend most of our time moving from one place to another in our vehicle or in public transport.
Traveling all over the world also provide opportunity for your child to learn math and apply it in real life, regardless of the town or city you are in or you traveled to.
Off We Go
Trip planning helps children and encourages them into a new world of comparing and measuring things differently.
What You Need
★ Maps
★ Marker
What to Do
★ Before you leave your home for a journey, sit with your children with a map as a case study showing them where you live and where you're going.
Have a discussion with your children about what maps are and how they are been used. Use a marker to point out your home and where you are going to then explain to them pointing out the distance between the home and the destination using a simple straight line.
★ On this part, you point out the different spots like where your relative lives which your child is familiar with and his favorite playing ground maybe where his school is.
Explain the difference between the distance from your relatives house to his favourite playing ground or school to where you are travelling to.
Explaining this to your children is not to complicate the measurement and direction of the map to your child but to familiarize him with the simple way of using a map.
★ Turn the map into a game where you play numbers telling your children to find some specific numbers like how to discover three 2s.
"The amount of route numbers on different road"
"The amount of streams and rivers in the state"
★ While getting ready to travel, teach your children how to pack things by counting them for example.
Three shirts, One trouser, Two pair of socks and so on
Are We There Yet?
Travelling by various means of transportation, gives the children the opportunity to use their brain to figure out the time and distance they have travelled.
What You Need
★ You need the information about the distance and time you will travel by different means of transportation.
What to Do
★ There are different transportation schedule all over the world. Explain to your children the way it works even to the plane timetable as it arrives and departs from the airport.
Don't forget to explain the calender schedule and how it works to your children that is the bus stops spots and the recorded time on the timetable.
★ While travelling a long distance, take time to often ask your children to check how far they have travelled and long is going to take to get to the destination showing them how to use the road signs, schedules and time table.
Ease on Down the Road
An important mathematical concept for children to learn is the relationship between two quantities such as miles pe hour or cost per gallon.
What You Need
★ Maps
★ Marker
★ Paper and pencil or pen
What to Do
On car trips with your child—short or long—take advantage of the following opportunities that allow him to apply his math skills:
★ Before leaving on a trip, give him a map and tell him that you want him to be your “navigator” as you drive.
Help him to mark the route that you will take.
Then show him how to use distance numbers on the map to estimate the distances between different locations. Check the odometer before you begin trip trip and have him write down the mileage.
★ As you’re driving, ask him to check the route marked on the map and let you know in advance when you’ll need to turn onto another road—the name and about how far away it is. Point out road signs along the way that tell how many miles to a junction or town or city.
Let him point out some for you.
★ On the highway, ask your child to read road signs and look for signs that show the speed limits.
Then ask him to watch the speedometer and let you know if you’re driving too fast for the posted limit.
Help him to practice his mental math skills by asking him questions such as, “The speed limit is 65 miles per hour. How far will we go in one hour? two hours? three hours?
How long will it take us to go 500 miles?”
★ When you stop for gasoline, ask your child to look at the pump to see how many gallons of gas you bought and the cost per gallon.
If the gas cost $1.59 a gallon, ask your child what five gallons will cost.
10 gallons? 20 gallons?
Ask him if he knows an easy way to figure this out.
(estimating the cost by rounding the cost per gallon to $1.60)
★ When you reach your destination, have your child write down the new mileage on your odometer. Show him how to figure the actual number of miles you traveled by subtracting the mileage when you left home from the new number.
Then have him compare the actualmileage to the estimated mileage.
Thanks for Reading
Happy Steeming and have a nice DAY
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